To Fiji
I have been totally useless at keeping this blog up to date; so once again it is catch up time. The voyage from Tahiti to Fiji continued much as it was on my last update; fairly fast and boisterous. We …
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Time out in Cape Town
A couple of pleasant but busy weeks in Tahiti saw Morgane cleaned, maintained, and prepared to be left alone on the hard at the Tahiti Nautic Center . Morgane was very professionally hauled out and parked up by Yvan and …
Tahiti – paradise, not; and expensive to boot.
17:43.94S 149:19.65W Hao was a very pleasant stop but soon it was time to get moving again. We had been continuously watching the weather forecasts looking for a good window to move on to the next destination but as previously …
The Dangerous Islands
18:04.50S 140:56.60W The Tuamotus have been known as the “Dangerous Archipelago” in the past due to their very low aspect and poor charts. The highest point on Hao is recorded as being only 3m above sea level. The coconut palms …
Living off the land in the Gambier Islands
23:06.75S 134:57.98W Plenty of food lives on, grows on or swims around these islands. A good thing too as food in the shops is seriously expensive apart from the things with red price tags which are considered staples and are …
What will this tropical weather do?
Thread Fin Butterfly Fish (Chaetodon Auriga)
23:09.61S 135:02.32W I mentioned before the fact that we had been struggling to get our heads around tropical weather and its forecasting. Last weekend had not just us but every boat in the area studying the weather situation very closely. …
Does it rain in Paradise?
23:06.75S 134:57.98W Yes it does! The last week has been very wet but only slightly cooler than the previous couple of weeks. We have been swimming every day but that is about all our outdoor activities have been limited to
An invasion of Falklands registered yachts
23:09.02S 135:03.30W Peregrine and Morgane anchored in Onemea Bay We now have two cruising yachts from the Falklands in the Gambier Islands. This is probably a first outside of the Falklands and what were the old Falkland Islands Dependencies of South …
Chilling in the heat of the Gambiers & the Mission!
23:06.798S 134:58.002W Sunday and we were in church and it wasn’t even a wedding or a funeral! We went to Easter Sunday mass to celebrate with more or less the whole Island. There were about 300 people in church at …
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Landfall; Rikitea, Mangareva, Gambier Islands
23:06.79S 134:58.01W We have finally arrived somewhere that has a proper anchorage, somewhere where we can anchor in still waters, and somewhere that we can set foot on dirt. We had been 32 days at sea (including one night in …